Blackthorn Hall

Bestselling thriller author Lydia Ashcroft returns to Blackthorn Hall, her family's remote estate on the lake, to write the book that could save her career. Instead, someone starts rewriting it. A page turns up in the wrong room. A line is crossed out in pencil. Notes appear in the margins, sharp, intimate, and impossible to ignore. Whoever is inside Blackthorn Hall knows Lydia's work better than anyone should. Knows the house. Knows her secrets. Then one note uses a name no one else has ever known. Birdie. The voice in the margins belongs to Owen Tate, the boy Lydia loved before he vanished nearly twenty years ago after a violent confrontation with her father. As Owen forces her to face the summer she has spent a lifetime burying, Blackthorn Hall begins giving up its own secrets: hidden surveillance photographs, an intercepted letter, estate records, and the truth Lydia has been turning into fiction for years. Because Owen was never obsessed with her. She lied and let the lie live. Now, trapped in the house where it all began, Lydia must write the one story she has spent her whole career avoiding: her own. But once the confession exists, so does a new question. Will she finally tell the truth to the world or bury it again before it destroys everything she built? Blackthorn Hall is a dark, addictive psychological thriller about love, guilt, power, and the stories we tell to survive what we've done.